Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

The author deserves the attention he is getting and I have no quibble that he is talented at writing. But. I am so tired of this kind of fantasy. Every damn book I pick up now is FILLED with rape, incest, gruesome killing described in loving detail, more rape and a little more rape after that. Can we get an ACTUAL representation of a strong female character that doesn't exist only to serve men in some way? Why don't we rape the men characters for a while? Mix it up a little, but no. Let's not just rape all the female characters let's include children! yay! I tried to trudge through the first book three seperate times but got thrown off by the introduction of like thirty different characters within the first few chapters. You introduce a likable family then spend the next four books brutally killing them off and doing all kinds of horrible things to them? It's like fantasy writing is now 'let's see how much we can get away with before people hurl'. And for the hordes of angry neckbeards just raring to have a go at me for DARING to dislike their grimdark crap; don't bother, if your defending this rape-fest book I don't think we're going to get along so cry me a river. I'm over this sort of writing being so popular. You can write a decent and dark book without THAT much rape and killing and really twisted, graphic descriptions.